Lila Refaie was called to the bar in 2012, and joined ARCH Disability Law Centre in July 2017 as a staff lawyer, offering legal services related to disability rights to persons with disabilities across Ontario. Since 2019, she is the Bilingual Intake Lawyer and Student Programs Lead at ARCH, providing legal services in both English and French. In addition to providing direct legal services to persons with disabilities, she also delivers public legal education and presentations to members of the legal profession and ARCH’s communities on a variety of topics.
Before joining ARCH, she was a staff lawyer at a community legal clinic in Prescott-Russell, practicing poverty law. She also briefly practiced family law and immigration law. Throughout her legal career, Lila has appeared before several administrative tribunals, the Superior Court of Justice, and the Divisional Court
